One of the mums at our ballet school is a Bridal designer and she and another mum give up a month of paid work to design and direct the sewing of costumes for our annual concert. These are no hastily hashed together pieces but bridal quality garments (with the exception that fasteners are velcro rather than buttons and zips). One of these mums opens her house twice a week for mass sewing bees.
This Tuesday I went along to see if I could help in anyway thinking I might be given some gluing or perhaps simple hand-sewing. But no. When I realised that one volunteer who had never used a sewing machine before was assigned to one of the overlockers I knew that my gluing days were numbered.
I came home with the job above. Thirty metres of trim to make for the Russian National Dance costumes. The trim is black ribbon, sewn onto gold ribbon with gold lace trim sewn to each side. Thirty metres. I'm going cross-eyed, but isn't it beautiful!
How do I find the time? I don't know but with two fundraisers to focus on at school and all the usual gumf that goes on I definitely need a drink at the end of the day.
2 comments:
Perfect ballet bun hair...and now metres and metres of Russian National Dance costume trim...is there no limit to the lengths you will go to in the name of ballet?
You'll be living in an apartment in Southbank before you know it, you mark my words.
I love those rich colors! But I don't envy you the work. I'd make it almost to the end and discover some massive screwup that required me to start completely over.
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